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      • DocPlatypus
        http://www.discogs.com/Sly-Fox-Lets-Go-All-The-Wa… -- note this says "Unofficial Release", how should this be entered?
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      • DocPlatypus
        leaving it blank for now
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      • nikki
        as far as I know, what discogs calls an unofficial release is what we call a bootleg
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      • DocPlatypus
        okay, I'll go back in and change it
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      • voiceinsideyou
        hmm
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      • voiceinsideyou
        so what does one do when the relationship editor claims unspecified errors with tracks?
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      • drsaunde
        swear and have some bong hits
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      • drsaunde
        oh i thought you meant, what do i do
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      • voiceinsideyou
        it underlines some relationships but if i remove those rels it just underlines the relationship above
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      • voiceinsideyou
        heh
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      • nikki
        which relationship types?
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      • voiceinsideyou
        mastering
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      • voiceinsideyou
        ahh if i remove the mastering ones maybe it will work
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      • nikki
        yes, those should go on the release now
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      • voiceinsideyou
        ok, so why does it let me do them on the recording then
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      • nikki
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      • nikki
        because we can't remove it entirely while there are still recording-level ones
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      • nikki
        and because of that ticket I linked :)
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      • voiceinsideyou
        serious question, why do we persist with style changes not supported by the code?
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      • voiceinsideyou
        i.e this is a pretty terribly unusable situation
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      • nikki
        we didn't realise the relationship editor couldn't support it
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      • voiceinsideyou
        moratorium? :)
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      • nikki
        on what?
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      • voiceinsideyou
        on removing support for them at recording level
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      • nikki
        well, we could reallow them, but that wouldn't exactly *fix* anything, because then people would get edit notes saying "this is wrong, it should be on the release!" and they'd be like "well, why did it let me submit them then >(" :/
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      • nikki prods bitmap
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      • nikki
        bitmap: have you seen the ticket I linked, btw?
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      • voiceinsideyou
        every time i go to do anything on MB there's some unspecified hidden bug or 'gotcha' that you have to be in the special circle to know about. Maybe it was alwas this way, but I'm sure noticing this a lot more now that I've stopped editing so often. It's pretty discouraging
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      • voiceinsideyou
        is there a separate ticket for "actually display error message for errors in relationship editor"?
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      • voiceinsideyou
        I'd kind of expect to be able to hover over the relationship with the red squiggle and see some sort of error
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      • nikki
        hm, I don't think so
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      • nikki
        and yeah, our interface really needs some work :(
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      • voiceinsideyou
        will create one
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      • voiceinsideyou
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      • nikki
        (I do think we've always had a lot of little bugs and quirks and whatnot though)
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      • nikki
        thanks!
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      • nikki
        bitmap: ^
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      • voiceinsideyou
        thanks for your help as always
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      • nikki
        you're welcome
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      • voiceinsideyou
        still amazes me how fast i can mass-AR a disc these days though, truly a thing of beauty
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      • voiceinsideyou
        i used to spend hours per alubm :)
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      • voiceinsideyou
        so niggles aside, life is better than a year ago... even if it is a bit obscure
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      • nikki
        hehe
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      • voiceinsideyou
        it's kind of a virtuous cycle too - since it's so much easier to do I think more people are doing it, which means more of the technical artists (recording engineers etc) are pre-created for me which speeds things massively
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      • nikki
        oh yeah, having to stop and open a new window to add a new artist is the most frustrating part of adding relationships for me
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      • _5moufl
        Does a free SoundCloud download constitute a release?
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      • reosarevok
        unclear
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      • reosarevok
        Does it have a cover?
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      • _5moufl
        reosarevok: yep
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      • reosarevok
        Then it might be the best choice
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      • CatQuest
        [08:20] <nikki> oh yeah, having to stop and open a new window to add a new artist is the most frustrating part of adding relationships for me
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      • CatQuest
        ding
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      • CatQuest
        good morn. erh noon
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      • JonnyJD
        Anybody around here uses a Mac and has an opinion about disc drive names and/or detection?
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      • JonnyJD
        see LIB-28 then (about using disc drive numers on libdiscid and possibly PICARD, rather than these ever-changing /dev/rdisk* things)
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      • Krystof
        reosarevok: so that link is still not really what I was after, though I'm dealing with it now in any case
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      • Krystof
        what I would have wanted was a list of all releases on which alessandrini was credited in that way
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      • reosarevok
        Krystof: well, it's where you edit all the uses of a particular artist credit
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      • reosarevok
        But yeah, what you say would be great. We just don't have it. There is the "Filter" thingy which I think is still broken :/
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      • Krystof
        while I'm complaining, all the neat userscripts to save a zillion clicks on fixing artist credits in releases seem to have stopped working. My fault your (collectively) yours?
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      • reosarevok
        Ours but most are fixed-ish in their latest versions
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      • reosarevok
        (we updated jquery and it broke tons of stuff)
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      • reosarevok
        The edit artist credits one sometimes requires changing the "credited as" thing for it to realise you want to change multiple credits and not just that one
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      • reosarevok
        So, add space, remove space :/
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      • Krystof
        fair enough. Now I need to understand how to persuade chromium that I am allowed to ask it to run userscripts
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      • reosarevok
        heh
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      • reosarevok
        I gave up and installed tampermonkey
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      • reosarevok
        Less effort than dragging and dropping into the extensions tab every time
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      • Krystof
        that sounds like a good hint
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      • Krystof
        alright, now a data representation question for you.
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      • Krystof
        I am tangentially involved in a small project aiming to demonstrate the potential of linked metadata in music cataloguing
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      • Krystof
        finding interesting information to present to users of catalogues such as Early Music Online and the European Corpus of Lute Music
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      • reosarevok
        Sounds interesting
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      • reosarevok
        What can we do to help? :)
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      • Krystof
        some of that is going to be finding ways of referring to shall we say mutations of the same work
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      • Krystof
        case in point, "Tant que vivray", a chanson sometimes attributed to Attaingnant, who arranged it for lute and for lute-and-soloist
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      • Krystof
        Can I colonize the "work" area for this to see if I can represent what I think needs representing?
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      • Krystof
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      • reosarevok
        heh
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      • reosarevok
        That was created for cases where they couldn't identify the right composer. Whiiich here seems to be on the track title? :p
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      • reosarevok
        But it's generally been abandoned in favour of simply [unknown] for those cases anyway - wonder how hard it be to get rid of it
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      • reosarevok
        About the work thing... it's unclear :)
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      • reosarevok
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      • reosarevok
        (I know, tl;dr)
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      • reosarevok
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      • Krystof
        I'm an academic, I don't do tl;dr
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      • reosarevok
        heh
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      • reosarevok
        Yeah, I guess we're still only amateurs in the "saying stuff with too many words" area
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      • reosarevok
        Anyway, the (IMO annoyingly arbitrary) restrictions on arrangement-as-work are tricky
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      • Krystof
        so they are. I think in this case they don't hurt because "Tant que vivray" is a popular song in all its incarnations
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      • Krystof
        so lots of recordings of all arrangements
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      • Krystof
        but for stuff even deeper in the long tail that will get annoying
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      • reosarevok
        I mean
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      • reosarevok
        They *are* guidelines-not-rules
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      • Krystof
        sure
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      • Krystof
        I am not worried about making the existing data worse in this regard
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      • reosarevok
        (so I've seen people skip the requirement because, say, the arranger is Sibelius or Prokofiev or whatever)
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      • reosarevok
        (it's more supposed to be a "don't add arrangement-as-work for stuff like 'I arranged this for string quartet to play with my own quartet'" I think)
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      • Krystof
        http://musicbrainz.org/work/5b622357-be60-34d7-bf… # the current work. Note (a) one recording and (b) wrong composer and (c) the album it's from :-)
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      • reosarevok
        Heh, Japanese and their love for classical-as-idol-music
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      • reosarevok
        But yeah
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      • reosarevok
        I'm sure there's plenty to improve in the early music area. Even more than in "classical" in general, I mean, and there's already so much there
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      • reosarevok
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      • reosarevok
        Worst thing is it *does* seem to be the correct title for the track at least :p
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      • arad85
        hello
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      • reosarevok
        hi